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" landscape where Nature's own hand would 

 " have planted them. The projector will 

 " rejoice the more in this allocation, that in 

 " many instances it will enable him to con- 

 " ceal the boimdaries of his plantations ; an 

 " object which, in point of taste, is almost 

 " always desirable. In short, the only per- 

 " sons who will suffer by the adoption of this 

 " system, will be the admirers of mathema- 

 " tical regularity, who deem it essential that 

 " the mattock and spade be under the pe- 

 " remptory dominion of the scale and com- 

 " pass ; who demand that all enclosures shall 

 " be of the same shape and the same extent ; 

 " who delight in straight lines and in sharp 

 " angles, and desire that their woods and 

 " fields be laid out with the same exact cor- 

 " respondence to each other as when they 

 <' were first delineated upon paper. It is to 

 " be conjectured, that when the inefficiency 

 " of this principle and its effects are pointed 

 " out, few would wish to resort to it, unless 

 " it were an humourist like Uncle Toby, or 

 " a martinet like Lord Stair, who planted 

 " trees after the fashion of battalions formed 

 " into line and column, that they might assist 

 " them in their description of the battles of 



